Description and Background:

Residence, c. 1855. An unusually well-preserved conventional bracketed Italian Villa, representing the most popular building of its age, combining economy with modern style.

Additional Sources:

• HSP and PHC: Franklin Fire Insurance Policy O 22830, July 3d, 1855, for Phineas F. Hager (survey with floor plan).

• PHC: "155 149 Walnut Lane (at Greene)" as well as "6122 Greene 155 Walnut Lane" (two contact prints and 8x10 photographs).

• PHC: 155 W. Walnut Lane. Pennsylvania Historic Resources Survey, 1983 (text, above photograph and site plan).